Resume Skills and Keywords for Petroleum Engineer

A petroleum engineer is in charge of designing drill equipment as well as devising strategies and techniques for extracting oil and gas from both onshore and offshore deposits. Among the responsibilities are suggestions for drilling operations based on cost, effort, and feasibility weighed against returns. Petroleum engineers often develop in their careers, gaining more independence and decision-making duties for larger and more difficult projects, subject to earning a Professional Engineering (PE) license.

Skills required for a Petroleum Engineer role

  • Drilling Operations Failure Analysis 
  • Equipment Maintenance 
  • Operations Research 
  • Oil and Gas Production Technology
  •  Python 
  • Machine Learning

What recruiters look for in a Petroleum Engineer resume: 

  • Skills in ​analyzing, evaluating, and monitoring geological formation data to determine extraction hazards and the optimum extraction procedures.
  • Knowledge of using surveys, testing, and analysis to evaluate new reservoirs to determine profits and to create low-cost drilling and extraction plans.
  • A strong approach in creating computer-simulated models of drilling formations and equipment, ensuring and creating the optimum extraction tools and equipment, and managing machinery and production costs.

What can make your Petroleum Engineer resume stand out:

A strong summary that demonstrates your skills, experience and background in the Petroleum Engineering sector:  

  • A certified Machine Learning professional adept in drilling operations, oil and gas production technologies. With the objective to take a challenging role to make significant contributions in multiple petroleum engineering disciplines. 

Targeted job description 

  • Create drilling equipment for the extraction of oil and gas from both onshore and offshore reservoirs.
  • Make recommendations based on the cost, effort, and viability of the project.
  • Create strategies and methods for drilling fields to recover oil and gas based on performance data, create and adjust tools and designs.
  • Ensure equipment is installed, operated, and maintained properly for effective use

Related academic background 

  • B. Tech (Petroleum Engineering) | APJ Kalam Petroleum College, Lucknow 2019
  • Higher Secondary | Rosewood Academy, Kanpur  2015
  • Senior Secondary | Rosewood Academy, Kanpur  2013 

Sample Resume of Petroleum Engineer in Text Format

MADHUR BAJPAYEE 

Petroleum Engineer 

7409702097 | madhur.bajpayee@gmail.com 

Linkedin:  Linkedin.com/in/madhur-bajpayee | House No. 34, Nawab Street, Kolkata 

SHORT SUMMARY

A certified Machine Learning professional adept in drilling operations, oil and gas production technologies. With the objective to take a challenging role to make significant contributions in multiple petroleum engineering disciplines. 

EDUCATION

  • B. Tech (Petroleum Engineering) | APJ Kalam Petroleum College, Lucknow 2019
  • Higher Secondary | Rosewood Academy, Kanpur  2015
  • Senior Secondary | Rosewood Academy, Kanpur  2013 

EXPERIENCE / INTERNSHIP 

Intern | ABC Chemicals, Lucknow Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 

  • Member of the team that developed and deployed 10 core proprietary reservoir modelling and optimization control. 
  • Performed end to end modelling and history matching of developed models. 
  • Evaluated drilling equipment and procedures, and analysed reservoir performance. 

VOLUNTEERING 

  • Member of nonprofit organisation Tameer Artivists from 2016 to 2018 
  • Volunteered for awareness program on Earth Day, 2016 

PROJECTS 

The Role of Multilevel Drilling Technology in Increasing Productivity in Middle East 

  • Collected and compared data from previous researches and proposed why multilevel drilling techniques hold great potential in drilling in the Middle East. 
  • Outlined benefits as well as challenges of ML drilling methods and how they can be used in the Middle East. Calculated comparative data with the help of drilling bits and BHA. 
  • Invited to the National Conference of Engineering and won the "Outstanding Research" award. 

Unconventional Drilling Methods for Reservoirs in India 

  • Analysed current drilling methods for unconventional gas and assisted in devising a new one by proposing to reduce the number of vertical wells. 
  • Conducted case study on the government's role in energy technology innovation.

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

  •  Cultural Secretary from 2016 to 2017

SKILLS ( TECHNOLOGY /  FUNCTIONAL ) 

  • Drilling Operations Failure Analysis 
  • Equipment Maintenance 
  • Operations Research 
  • Oil and Gas Production Technology
  •  Python 
  • Machine Learning

LANGUAGES 

  • English 
  • Hindi 
  • Bengali 

AREAS OF INTEREST 

  • Drilling and Well Operations 
  • Reservoir Engineering 
  • Rening Technology  

INDUSTRIAL VISITS 

  • Bharat Petroleum, 2017 
  • Bombay High Oil Reserve, 2018 
  • GAIL India Limited, 2018 

PROFESSIONAL ENHANCEMENTS 

Certifications

  •  Certification in Python and Machine Learning from APK Institute, Lucknow in 2019